In the following equation of a reaction
p0+n→K++Σ−
What is the quark composition of the p0 particle? Or is it supposed to be ρ0?
For me it certainly looks more like p, not ρ.
(Source: K. A. Tsokos, Physics for the IB Diploma, Sixth Edition, Cambridge University Press)
Answer
It looks like a typo for ρ0+n→K++Σ−
You can tell that your "p" must be a meson, not a baryon, because both sides of the reaction must have the same baryon number, and the baryon number on the right side is +1.
Commenters on a duplicate question point out that it may also by a typo for π0, if the printer's software produces the character "π" using the same code point as "p" but in some other typeface. Like the ρ, the π also has zero baryon number and unit isospin; however the pion is spinless while the rho is a spin-one "vector" meson.
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